Last week I did something impulsive: I installed Windows XP Service Pack 3. None of the problems I'd heard mentioned seemed to apply to anything I was running. Microsoft does warn you to back up before installing SP3, but I didn't feel like taking the extra hours required for a complete drive image, and I knew all my data was already backed up. This was, of course, not the best time to start … [Read more...]
Thanks, Mom: FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 05-08-08
Yes, this Backup Reminder is late. Sort of like my Mother's Day card. It's getting to be a habit, and not a good one. Part of the problem is that it seems to take me so much longer to write my own e-zine than to write a blog post for a client. Those rarely take more than half an hour, including research. The Backup Reminder rarely takes less than an hour, often not including research. Not being … [Read more...]
Why It’s Worth Writing About Backup: FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 04-11-08
Yesterday I upgraded several of my blogs/sites to WordPress 2.5. (If you're a WordPress user, I recommend that you do this also. Be sure to back up your blog first—the whole thing, not just the database.) One thing I noticed in the course of doing this was that I really have very few posts/articles about writing. Indeed, many of the posts that started out on the Author-ized Articles blog were … [Read more...]
A Backup Battery for the Battery Backup: FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 04-04-08
I've mentioned battery backups—that is, Uninterrupted Power Supplies which provide electricity when PG&E decides to stage a rolling blackout—once or twice in the past. This past week the Ur-Guru had an adventure with his, so I've asked him to write about it. ### One of the things often overlooked when thinking about backups is an uninterruptable power supply (UPS). We back up our data … [Read more...]
Backing Up Social Networks, Part 2: FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 03-28-08
Last week I talked about backups for two different Web 2.0 services: del.icio.us and LinkedIn. I chose those two because they're the ones I use the most often. This week I'm going to start by talking about Flickr, a popular photo-sharing service that doubles as a social network. I don't post photos to Flickr myself, but the Ur-Guru does. (Yes, lots of them are pictures of me. What did you … [Read more...]
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